27 Feb 2023 11:11pm Approx Into 28 Feb 2023 - Northern Lights / Scotland

ABSM Wise
Patricia Pal · 41m ·






Star Sister Astrology
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In the dark glitter of the night skies around you, the Red Planet Mars
and the waxing Gemini Moon are just a degree apart.

In an hour --at 11:11 pm on the US East Coast
-- they’ll be conjunct.

That happens every month
— but this time, just like last,
and the one before that, too, is not in any way ordinary.

THE REGENERATION OF LIFETIMES

If you follow astrology, you already know that Saturn is in the last, urgent degree of Pisces,
and Pluto is in the same degree
-- the one astrologers call "critical"
-- of Capricorn.

What you might have lost track of is that the biggest archetypal regeneration
of our lifetime is still a work in progress.

I'm talking about the Red Planet.

Astrologically, Mars is your drive and your motivation, your energy at every level

-- from the way you take action, and the reason you take it,
to your physical body.

He's the way you move towards what you want,
and he's all the Mars people in your life.

Brothers, lovers, husbands, sons
-- and women with a fully activated Mars, or one that's waking up.

Tonight's conjunction between Mars and the Moon is actually an eclipse,
or "occultation," as astronomers call it.

It's a word that means "to hide."

Just what, you ask might these two
-- who live within you as your agency and your deep, creative lunar intelligence
-- be doing together, hidden away?

ECLIPSING AN OLD, TIRED IDENTITY FOR A LOST ONE
-- THE MAGICIAN, NOT THE WARRIOR

Tonight's Mars eclipse is the fourth in less than three months
-- since December 8, when the Red Planet came to the turning point
of his first start-to-finish retrograde in Gemini in almost 80 years
, and opposed the Sun.

Just before he did, Luna eclipsed him.

In January, nine days before Mars called it a wrap for his epic Gemini retrograde
that was a vision quest for his other side, the Moon did it again.

And again on January 31, almost three weeks after he'd begun to connect the dots.

And again tonight.

We go for entire years without a single Mars eclipse.

If there is it one, it's usually just once or twice in a year.

But not now.

Tonight will be our fourth Mars occultation in less than three months.

And it's happening while the Red One is out of bounds,
going further from Earth than the Sun ever goes
-- not just for a few days or a few weeks, but for six and a half months.

Is there something you want to do, or to stop doing?

Something you want to be more motivated for?

Something you want to energize in your life?

THE GREAT MYSTERY IS PULLING OUT THE STOPS FOR MARS,
& FOR METAMORPHOSIS

The Universe meets us at pretty much exactly the level we meet her.

If we hold back, negotiate, protect our agenda, the Great Mystery is rarely impressed.

If we’re resonating with her, wanting to match her creative passion and mastery
— she sits up and takes notice.

Now you're talking, she whispers in her wordless way.

Go for that tonight, star peeps. Because when it comes to the Red One,
the Great Mystery been pulling out the stop for almost exactly six months.

Remember that rare conjunction of Mars, Uranus,
and that great gate of destiny, the Moon's North Node,
back when July was turning into August?

It was the first time those three had aligned in the same degree since 1855.

The last time they'd done it in Taurus was 2,345 years ago.

Alexander the Great was still alive.
They weren't the only ones present.

They had a fourth companion
-- a tiny asteroid whose presence goes mostly unnoticed.

Her name is Kaali, known as the primordial Creatrix on the Indian subcontinent.

She embodies a form of the Creatrix more universal than Western culture
has ever been able to imagine.

She's the creative, preserving, and destroying functions of the Cosmos
-- all in one luminous being.

Kali expresses "a love so vast and fierce and full of compassion
that it extends beyond all our notions and experiences of space, time, possibility,"
writes Aditi Devi in "Approaching the Primordial Dark Goddess
Through the Song of Her Hundred Names.

" When she shows up, something is transforming.

Something is coming into being.

And whatever is in the way of it is about to disappear.

Want some of that? Take the Great Mystery seriously. And Mars too.

What the Red Planet has been showing us is how done he is with being
the designated aggressor, killer, rapist of a culture of domination.

For seven months, he's been in Gemini.

It's the realm of his brother Mercury, first known as Hermes.
-- not the coldly calculating mind of the technocrats,
disconnected from the Mystery, but the creative
and totally connected mind of the healer, the magus, the soul guide.

And tonight, nine nights before Saturn, our reality gatekeeper,
enters the dreamfields of Pisces, the Red One is being eclipsed in Gemini,
Hermes' ancient home.

It's his last eclipse for six months.

We're entering a critical threshold of the metamorphosis of the Red Planet,
within and around you.

Can't you feel it in your bones and your cells,
and the space on which your atoms float.

Can't you feel the footprints in your dreams and your longing?

ENTER THE REALM OF THE MAGIC-MAKERS

Over the last six months -- since just after Mars conjoined with Mars,
Uranus, the Moon's North Node, and Kaali, a small tribe of asteroids
associated with shapeshifting, regenerating, bliss body evoking,
and magical transformation has been coming together over and over.

The Mars eclipses are going on pause
-- but the tribe of magic-makers who've come to support his metamorphosis
are far from done.

At every new moon, and every new one, at every one of the major cosmic events,
they've been messaging your bones and your cells and the space on
which your atoms float that we are leaving ordinary time
and entering the time the Greeks called Kairos.

I'm talking Hermes and Merlin, Osiris and Dionysus.

I'm talking Kaali, and Ceres, the Earth Goddess, and Isis, goddess of magical regeneration.

Beginning this week and next,
I'm leading two small groups in a six-week exploration of these regenerators,
transformers, and magic-makers who are busy connecting, creating,
and shapeshifting behind the scenes and beneath the surface of your life
and mine, and of our world.

We'll listen to their stories and examine the astonishing choreography
of cosmic magic they began in the summer of 2022
-- and that won't end until after the 2023 Capricorn Solstice.

We'll see where they dwell in your one-of-a-kind cosmic map,
and we'll contemplate how to welcome them in, dialogue and dance with them
-- and where and when to co-create with them.

To keep the groups small, space is limited.

One group is already full. If this calls to you,
please email me for more information.
at starsisterastrology@gmail.com.

We start next week.

 

Northern lights in the sky over Murmansk region, Russia!
28 FEB 2023

 

Aurora like in a shape of an Angel with wings.

 

. . . this was the night when Solar wind hit Earth's magnetosphere at speeds not seen in years - spiking at over 800km/second!
Solar maximum is scheduled for 2025. Many more opportunities to come!
Real time Solar wind data:
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/real-time-solar-wind



















Tony Wong Photography
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Aurora the night of February 26 and the morning of 27, on the edge of Calgary near Symon's Valley Road.

 

28 FEB 2023
John Jardine Goss creates all the charts you see in our night sky guide.
But here's the real thing! A photo by John of Venus and Jupiter,
in the west after sunset. They'll be even closer tonight. Thanks, John!
https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/56206/

 

27 FEB 2023
BBC Radio Somerset
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The Northern Lights over Somerset
Thanks to Will Gater for this photo taken on the Quantock Hills.

 

27 Feb 2023
Northern Lights dancing above the clouds in Finland.
photography by @juusohd

 

Scotland's Scenery ·
Photographer: Tatiana Pons · ·

My take on last night's (27 FEB/2023, 28 FEB 2023) insane aurora show on Isle of Skye
21:00 GMT @ ISO 3200 F2.8 10s